Teen Events Schedule for January and February

The schedules are up on the web at:

www.fletcherfree.org/programming.html

(You can download a calendar for the fridge, too.)

Want to read for fun this winter and gather with friends and food to talk about good books?
Join a book club!

Gamers: Save the Date: The first Saturday of February break will be the Open-Play Tournament.

Help plan, create publicity, paint the space, make bulletin boards, write reviews...
Join the Teen Advisory Board! Open to grades 7-12. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays.

Games? In the Library?

Fletcher Free Library would like to host monthly open-play gaming tournaments! We're looking for volunteers to lend their console or game for a few hours, to help set up the event, and to spread the word! Give Cara a ring if you'd like to help make this happen: 865-7228. The tournaments will take probably place on a weekend late afternoon, once a month. They will be free and hopefully include food and prizes. Once we get a few going, it will be easier and easier to make game nights a regular event.... Click "comment" to give feedback!
To read about popular gaming programs at other libraries, check out: http://libgaming.blogspot.com/

The Golden Compass is in theatres! See it for cheap with other fans!

If you can wait 'till Wednesday, Dec. 12 to see it, the library is leading a group to see the film at the Roxy Cinema. We'll meet at the library at 3:30, head across the street and watch the movie and eat popcorn, all for $4 due to the generosity of Merrill's Roxy Cinema! Then we'll head back to the library by 6pm. Call me or email with your name and number to sign up by Monday, Dec. 10. (Contact info at left)
Enjoy this cinematic event with other Golden Compass fans!


Get psyched by going to the official website, www.goldencompassmovie.com, where you can choose daemons and read the alethiometer. Or, turn to any news site to read about the controversy surrounding the book and its symbolic representation of the Catholic church.
What do you think about that controversy? Do you have high or low expectations about the movie in general? What do you think would be most difficult to adapt from the book? Comment!

What's Coming In...

Place your holds: these books are hot stuff!

Either newly released or on bestseller lists, these books or on order or in demand at Fletcher Free:

Extras by Scott Westerfield

-- new in a series, lots of holds!

Slam by Nick Hornby

-- a hit, on order

Rhett Butler's People,

a sequel to Gone With the Wind -- on order

The The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick -- so popular!

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman --

the movie's out this friday,

so everyone wants to read it first!

The Nixie's Song

(Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles #1)

by Holly Black -- on order

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Halloween's long gone, but vampire fandom

definitely isn't...